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sys-con radio interview
an interview with...james gosling, creator of java and sun fellow, sun microsystems, inc.
interview by jason westra & dave johnson at javaone 2000
profile in brief:
james gosling, the lead engineer and key architect behind the java programming language and platform, has been involved in distributed computing since his arrival at sun in 1984. his first project was the newstm window system. before joining sun, he built a multiprocessor version of unix, the original andrew window system and toolkit and several compilers and mail systems. he also built the original unix "emacs" and helped build a satellite data acquisition system.java developers journal: james, what do you think about this javaone conference compared to the last five that youve attended?
james gosling: i guess i have a hard time believing the exponent and the growth, its been something like 35% year over year. i didnt think that there were this many cool people in the world, having so much fun!
i think the thing thats really dominated the show for me this year is that there are really people out there doing it, this stuff is out there, people are really building it. a few years ago, you know, we were saying "wouldnt it be cool to do telephones" and last year we were saying "hmm, whats happening?" and this year its like people have got trunkloads of telephones, trunkloads of pagers.
its unfortunate being in the united states, where the infrastructure doesnt really support the cool stuff; maybe we should all move to europe or japan or someplace! but the stuff has been amazing, the fact that the smartcard folks have been just going nuts, theres like a dozen manufacturers of the smartcard and theyre selling like a hundred million of them this year - all able to run these little cardlets and with different levels of flexibility and power just do some really entertaining things.
jdj: weve actually been interviewing people now for three days straight and some of the most interesting folks have been in the wireless and the mobile area. do you think thats definitely been the theme for this java conference?
jg: its certainly been our theme. i guess that one of the problems at
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